Fireworks man: 'Smoke did not drift over motorway'

Fireworks display organiser Geoffrey Counsell. Credit: PA

The inquest into the M5 crash in which seven people died, has heard that smoke from a nearby fireworks display did not drift over the motorway.

Display organiser Geoffrey Counsell said he was standing between the fireworks display and the carriageway and was worried visibility would be reduced for spectators as the smoke was drifting towards them.